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In college I was a finance major before switching to computer science. Marry finance and technology together and you get something called fintech, which means I should love robo-advisors, that golden child of fintech, right?

The sites like Betterment and Wealthfront that invest your money using sophisticated computer algorithms that last I checked every personal finance blogger was promoting. I don’t use them, and here’s why.

Let’s say you’re 25 and you have $3,000 you want to invest. You start asking around what you...

I’m wandering around this full-scale replica of a New York City apartment. And I’m wondering if the artist ever thought about giving up as he was sewing every little detail in translucent fabric. Because I think that’s the hardest part about life: Knowing why you’re doing what you’re doing.

For years I didn’t know why I was doing what I was doing. I was getting up, driving to work, dealing with an inbox full of...

I’m listening to my dad’s funeral service. He was killed riding his motorcycle 10 years ago. Witnesses said he was going 40 miles per hour and a 19-year-old waitress driving an SUV didn’t yield on a left turn. He ended up face down on the pavement. She was charged with criminally negligent homicide.

I know all that because I emailed the police department to get the report.